All Saints Hotel, Fornham St. Genevieve , Bury St. Edmunds, IP28 6JQ

Planning appeal 3315881 at All Saints Hotel, Fornham St. Genevieve , Bury St. Edmunds, IP28 6JQ (West Suffolk) was allowed on 8 August 2023 by Inspector Simpson L, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the principle of development is acceptable and in particular, whether the three proposed dwellings would accord with the Council's strategy for the location of development.

reconfiguration of second floor roof to existing bedroom wing and four storey linked extension creating 37 bedrooms and three residential dwellings on the second floor

Authority: West Suffolk
Appeal type: major · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Hearing
Development: residential · Other Major Developments
Inspector: Simpson L
Postcode: IP28 6JQ

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the principle of development is acceptable and in particular, whether the three proposed dwellings would accord with the Council's strategy for the location of development.

What decided it

The extant fallback position (the Previous Permission, under construction) reduced the conflict with the development plan to a purely technical one, allowing the moderate benefits of the three additional dwellings to outweigh that limited harm.

the limited, technical harm arising from conflict with the development plan's countryside housing policies was outweighed by the moderate social and economic benefits of adding three dwellings to the housing stock, particularly when compared against the fallback position

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy DM5Policy DM27Policy DM25Policy CS1Policy DM22Policy DM2
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 80

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